If you do that, though, you’ll miss some things you learned very recently. Something that was scheduled for Monday because you learned it Sunday, will end up behind everything and you’ll see it much later. Of course this happens with smaller intervals too - you miss one day of memrise, get two days worth of stuff on one day, and if you deliberately spread them out over two days then you’ll also delay new items.
Also, it’s just annoying and takes more effort. But yes, it is a possible workaround that I sometimes use. It’s imperfect; things still get bunched up, but fewer at a time (over time the clumps still get pretty large).
Right. Which is why it would be harmless for memrise to do this automatically.
How you outlined how you use Memrise in your latest post is also how I (ideally) would use it.
After months of inactivity (because of frustration with exactly what you write here after I built up a backlog, which I couldn’t clear) I have been reducing my backlog over the last couple of weeks. If I get an item wrong I think I am presented with it again the next day. I’m guessing the behaviour now is: has there been activity over the last while on the word? If yes, bring it to the front of the review queue. (Other guess: all items due with a review interval of 4 hours come before those of 12 hours, come before those of 24 hours, and so on.)
I can’t really confirm it though as I have too many items due for review and I don’t track things so closely. If it does work like this I applaud it as now I am able to more effectively push back against the backlog, which was a nightmare before.
I take that back. I don’t notice behaviour like this now that I’m mainly down to 2 big courses that need watering. My earlier guess was wishful thinking plus failing to keep track of the smaller courses where I did again quickly see the words that I failed.
I’ll go review course by course and, cringe, perhaps even level by level to get my backlog back to zero. Luckily I have big levels.
Wow, some great discussions here. I didn’t think my suggestion to add some jitter to the due intervals would be so controversial. I agree with @cos that adding some jitter should be beneficial. I’m still not really sure why you would want to review per level - doesn’t that mean that some courses are simply too big?
That could be true. I never use the web version, so it might very well be a bug in the Android App. The same might be true of the other points I made in my original post.
I would really love to hear the thoughts of someone on the Memrise staff, but apparently they are allergic to this topic
